RT Article
T1 To Serve and Protect Whom? Using Composite Counter-Storytelling to Explore Black and Indigenous Youth Experiences and Perceptions of the Police in Canada
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 8
SP 1137
OP 1164
A1 Samuels-Wortley, Kanika
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760062022
AB Research based in the US and Britain have established that perceptions of the police are particularly low among youth and racialized communities. However, by contrast, little is known about racialized youth perceptions of the police within Canada. Due to formal and informal bans on the collection of race-based data, Canada maintains its international reputation as a tolerant multicultural society. Using the critical race methodology of composite counter-storytelling, this paper will highlight the perspectives of Black and Indigenous youth and explore their experiences with law enforcement. This aims to counter Canada’s international status as a multicultural utopia and demonstrate how legal criminal justice actors, such as the police, perpetuate the marginalized status of Black and Indigenous youth through the process of criminalization.
K1 composite counter-story
K1 Critical Race Theory
K1 Policing
K1 race and racism
K1 Victimization
K1 Youth Delinquency
DO 10.1177/0011128721989077